Resources in Art and Architecture on the Web

Digitized posters about AIDS from 44 countries. From the UCLA Library.

Posters from Africa covering politics, health, religion, liberation struggles, art exhibitions, and social issues. From Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections.

Digitized posters from ca. 1895-1911. From the New York Public Library.

Online exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.

From UC Berkeley Library.

From UC Berkeley Library.

From UC Berkeley Library.

From UC Berkeley Library.

From UC Berkeley Library.

From UC Berkeley Library.

"Over 1300 posters from 1960s-2016 designed by Cuban artists for both Cuban and foreign films, film festivals, and film related special events." From UCLA.

Posters from the graphic workshop in Santiago, Chile, created between 1977 and 1994. From UCLA.

Includes over 400 items from the University of Florida via JSTOR.

From UC Berkeley Library.

Caribbean-related posters in Dloc, the Digital Library of the Caribbean. See the several categories listed on the page.

Collection of nearly 600 broadsides highlights crime and capital punishment, primarily in England, as seen through the popular press in the 18th and 19th century. From Harvard Digital Collections.

From UC Berkeley Library.

From UC Berkeley Library.

From UC Berkeley Library.

Small collection from the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Libraries.

Chiefly from the Nazi party during WWII. From UC Berkeley Library.

Contains 349 posters from 1966 to 2014. From Northwestern University Libraries Digital Collections.

Digitized movie posters from the collections of the University of Texas at Austin.

Documents relating to U.S. Army Operations in World War II; U.S. government propaganda posters from World Wars I and II. Available via JSTOR.

Posters and wall newspapers from the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949.

The collection comprises an assortment of printed materials intended for broad public distribution in a variety of formats.

Approximately 350 works created in Cuba from the revolution through the 2000s. From Wofford College via JSTOR.

Collection ranges from earliest years of motion pictures to the World War II era.

Selected posters from the 1920s to the 1960s from Los Angeles Public Library.

Works by a collective of anti-apartheid activists based in Gaborone, Botswana. From UCLA.

From UC Berkeley Library.

Posters from the Mideast, the vast majority created in Egypt.

"Comprises posters produced by government offices and private organizations, primarily in Iran and Afghanistan." From University of Chicago.

This collection contains fine examples of printed broadsides designed and distributed among Pennsylvania Germans. From Franklin & Marshall College via JSTOR.

Specimen book issued in 1913 by Propaganda Stuttgart to showcase the firm’s posters. From Minneapolis College of Art and Design via JSTOR.

Printed for the World Peace Council between 1948 and 1978. SUNY at Buffalo Libraries Digital Collections.

"This database consists of images of those posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom, Socialism, Women, and Youth/Student Protest." From the University of Michigan.

Large collection of digitized posters divided into categories.

Includes circus and theater posters, travel posters, and World War I and II propaganda posters.

From the Boston Athenaeum.

War posters, mostly dating from World War I to World War II.

Works from archives of punk and post-punk music and culture. From Cornell Library.

Polish, Cuban, and Russian posters held in the RISD Library Graphic Design and Illustration Archive.

The largest private collection of materials related to the history of Rhode Island, now in the John Hay Library at Brown University.

Book comprising a collection of posters designed by V. Lebedev for the windows of the Russian Telegraph Agency (ROSTA), the state news agency of Soviet Russia. From Dartmouth Library Collection.

Banners that were carried in marches, protests and demonstrations. From Swansea University via JSTOR.

"These posters translate and re-imagine the ideology and the agenda of the Soviet Union for Armenian society." From UCLA.

Library of Congress site.

From the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Over 200 political posters from multiple countries. Collection of Claremont Colleges via JSTOR.

These posters were issued by agencies ranging from the Department of Agriculture to the Forest Service, the National Archives and Records Administration, the Department of Defense, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. From Central Washington University Libraries via JSTOR.

Database of late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century theatre posters.

"This collection contains a wide assortment of posters promoting books, libraries, and children's literacy from a variety of organizations including the American Library Association and the Children's Book Council."

"Olakh is a feminist organization based in Vadodara, Gujarat, India. This archive includes not only political pamphlets and books but also a one of a kind collection of political songs, tapes of street plays, political posters, artwork, and poetry collected by Olakh from feminist groups around the nation."

"The poster collection represented in this archive is physically located in the offices of the feminist organization, Sahiyar, located at Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda, Gujarat."

Collection of European and American war posters.

Posters from the Spanish Civil War, mostly Republican.

Search interface for the collections.

Soviet era posters from an exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University.

Includes posters advertising a variety of concerts, most of which took place in the early 1980s in and around Milwaukee. From Milwaukee Public Library.

Selection of banners created between c.1908 and c.1920 in the collection of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Available through JSTOR.

National Library of Scotland site devoted to the broadside.

78 workplace posters from the first half of the twentieth century from the Hagley Museum & Library.

Images of select World War II posters held at the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library's Special Collections/University Archives. Available via JSTOR.

More than 300 posters issued by various U. S. government agencies.

American posters available through JSTOR.

Consists of 907 posters produced from 1936 to 1943 by various branches of the WPA. From the Library of Congress.

Collection presents 78 posters of advertisements for performances and presentations that took place in the 1920s-30s in Eastern Europe, especially Latvia. From University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee Libraries.